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Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones averaging more than four a day in 2026, World Health Organization says

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises during an Israeli raid at Al Shifa hospital and the area around it, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo

Gaza cancer patients face rising death rate amid Israeli curbs, doctors say

Displaced Palestinian cancer patient Khuloud Abu Sahmoud, 33, sitting with her children in an UNRWA school where she is sheltering in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug 8.

NKF pushes for more sustainable dialysis to reduce carbon footprint and ease staff’s back pain

Nurse Chembali Ambujakshan Dhanyamol, tops up the acid concentrate for the Haemodialysis machine, for a patient at NKF. The introduction of the Centralised Acid Concentrate Delivery System system has reduced the need for caregivers to carry the acid concentrate containers, and in turn the medical waste generated.

Kidney patient’s son carries on legacy of donating to NKF

SUTL chairman and chief executive Arthur Tay continues his father’s legacy of supporting NKF’s dialysis and sustainability efforts.

Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban

A member of the M23 rebel group stands guard as provincial authorities visit the Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB), where samples from suspected Ebola cases are tested, as part of the response to the epidemic in Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19, 2026. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Ebola patients, responders flee attack on Congo hospital

Ketamine therapy at IMH offers hope to patients with hard-to-treat depression

Ketamine, widely known as a party drug that has emerged as a fast-acting treatment for patients with hard-to-treat depression worldwide, is now available at IMH.

Congo Ebola outbreak still spreading largely undetected, WHO official says

Healthcare workers involved in the Ebola response gather at Rwampara General Hospital during a go-slow over unpaid salaries, as authorities seek to contain a new outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, in Rwampara, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 6, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

NKF lowers malnutrition risk among its patients by putting protein first

NKF principal dietitian Yee Chooi Fong explaining protein requirements to Neo Ah Lek at NKF’s 633 Ang Mo Kio Dialysis Centre on June 24.

Trial for Bundibugyo Ebola treatment starts in DRC, WHO says

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